Fancy something a little bit nutty and a whole lotta awesome? This super-easy chocolate and peanut butter mousse is layered with peanut butter flavour Oreos 🙂
This post is sponsored by Oreo
If I told you that Oreos are the world’s favourite biscuit, would you be surprised? No, me neither! Apparently nearly 7.5 billion are eaten every year and I am definitely part of that statistic. But did you also know that they have just launched several new flavours to give the iconic original a new twist?
There’s Choc’o Brownie flavour flavour, mint flavour, strawberry cheesecake and peanut butter flavour Oreos. In the interests of ‘research’ we tried them all and there’s definitely a flavour to suit everyone. My personal favourite has got to be the peanut butter flavour Oreos. As someone who has just adopted a new rescue puppy in possibly the busiest time of the year, I would say I am choc’ full of nuts 😉
But I also absolutely love chocolate and peanut butter combo – the are meant to be together those two, just check out my peanut butter millionaire’s shortbread! I also made an a-ma-zing peanut butter and chocolate layer cake this weekend to celebrate my (belated) birthday. But I will have to bake that cake again in order to photograph and post the recipe – it was inhaled before I ever got a chance to do either.
I was inspired by the new peanut butter flavour Oreos to create this five ingredient chocolate and peanut butter mousse. It is an amazingly easy dessert if you ever need something impressive in a real hurry and, needless to say, it is ridiculously delicious!
I used aquafaba (a.k.a chickpea brine) to make this dessert as it is just so easy and guaranteed to create a mousse that is velvety smooth. Simply drain the liquid from a can of chickpeas (and use them to make my sheet pan cod) and whisk until it forms almost firm peaks.
You can sweeten the aquafaba meringue with a little maple or agave syrup or leave it as it is – it’s up to you how sweet you prefer your mousse. Mix the whisked aquafaba with melted chocolate and smooth peanut butter and layer it in pretty glasses with roughly chopped peanut butter flavour Oreos and, BOOM, dessert is served.
Normally you need to chill aquafaba chocolate mousse before it sets, but the addition of peanut butter makes it firm enough to eat immediately. If you wanted to go a little fancier you could also drizzle some melted chocolate over the top or add some chopped salted peanuts for extra crunch and zing.
If you love Oreos as much as I do you might also want to try these recipes…
- My cookies and cream layer cake is a big crowd pleaser.
- Red velvet brownies with Oreo cream cheese mousse from Domestic Gothess.
- Snickers cheesecake bites from Kitchen Sanctuary.
- Halloween cake with meringue bones and Oreo ‘dirt’
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Five ingredient chocolate peanut butter mousse
Ingredients
- 240 ml | 1 cup aquafaba
- 100 g | 3 1/2oz dark chocolate
- 3 tbsp smooth peanut butter
- 2-3 tbsp agave syrup optional
- peanut butter flavour Oreos roughly chopped
- chocolate sauce or melted chocolate to drizzle optional
Instructions
- Drain the liquid from a 400g (14oz) can of chickpeas into the bowl of your stand mixer. Reserve the chickpeas to use in another recipe.
- Chop the chocolate into small cubes and place in a heatproof bowl. Set the bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water and allow it to slowly melt. Stir until smooth.
- Heat the peanut butter for 10-20 seconds in a microwave until runny and stir into the chocolate.
- Whisk the aquafaba until it forms almost firm peaks – this will take a few minutes on maximum speed setting. Add your agave syrup, if using, after the meringue forms soft peaks.
- Fold the melted chocolate into the whisked aquafaba until you have a smooth mousse.
- Add some chopped peanut butter flavour Oreos in four small glasses or jars.
- Spoon some of the mousse over them and then top with a few more Oreos.
- Drizzle with some melted chocolate or chocolate sauce, if you like.
Cassy says
Hi! Can you use natural peanut butter for this? Or do both kinds work?
Lucy Parissi says
I don’t see why not! Hope you like the recipe x